Seminars
November 2007
Ongoing
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11/6
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Societal and Environmental Topics Regarding Pennsylvania's Natural Resources: Amish Farmlands and Anthracite Coal
Zachary J. Lebo,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
8:00am
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9:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
How to Decipher Fracture Surfaces and Crackling Noise
Laurent Ponson,
postdoctoral scholar,
GALCIT,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Switched Mode RF Systems
Yuanxun Ethan Wang,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
UCLA,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
1:30pm
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5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Power of Quantum Systems on a Line
Sandy Irani,
professor of information and computer science,
UC Irvine,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Youssef Marzouk,
postdoctoral scholar in mechanical engineering,
Sandia National Laboratories,
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
3:45pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Anticipating Threats from New Chemicals and Mixtures: Linking Molecular Models to Field-Scale Forecasts
Samuel Arey,
US NSF International Research Fellow,
Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry,
École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
The Optical Antenna: A Versatile Tool for Nanophotonics
Ken Crozier,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
Harvard University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
10:00am
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11:30am
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2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
Velocity and Density-Field Measurements of Shock-Driven Instabilities and Turbulence
Kathy Prestridge,
researcher in physics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Pushing CMOS to the Limits
Ali M. Niknejad,
associate professor,
electrical engineering and computer sciences,
UC Berkeley,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
9:15am
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2:45pm
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
9:00am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Real-Time Adaptive Signal Processing
Yoav Freund,
professor of computer science,
UC San Diego,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
The Quantum Phase Transition to Topological Order and Topological Entropy
Alioscia Hamma,
postdoctoral scholar in quantum information and quantum theory,
USC,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Silicone Carbide Hybrid Optical Sensor for Next Generation Greener Gas Turbines
Nabeel Riza,
professor of optics and electrical engineering,
University of Central Florida,
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Chemistry and Phase Partitioning in Atmospheric Organic Aerosols: A Dynamic Interaction
Neil M. Donahue,
associate professor of chemical engineering and chemistry,
Carnegie Mellon University,
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Noise Effect on Humans and Animals
Man Nin Chan,
graduate student in environmental science and engineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
JPL, von Karman Auditorium
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Beneath the Frozen Surface
Friday, November 16th, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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9:00am
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4:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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CACR Seminar
Astroinformatics and Petascale Mining of Large Astronomy Sky Survey Databases
Kirk Borne,
department of computational and data sciences,
George Mason University,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
On the Basics of a Pod-Based Methodology to Characterize the Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Large Structures
Ioannis Georgiou,
School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens,
4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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6:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
RF Issues Associated with WiMAX in the WCS Band
Todd Sutton,
vice president of RF engineering,
advanced technology group,
NextWave Broadband,
6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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8:00pm
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Theodore von Karman Lecture
Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado, the Vosloh Forum (south of Colorado on Bonnie)
The Hidden Ocean of Europa: Beneath the Frozen Surface
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
8:00pm
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10:00pm
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
4:00pm
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KNI Nanoscience Colloquium
Spin Mapping on the Atomic Scale
Professor Roland Wiesendanger,
Institute of Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center,
University of Hamburg,
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments
Eduardo Novais,
postdoctoral research associate in physics,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
The Next Generation of Neural Networks
Geoffrey Hinton,
professor of computer science,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
8:00am
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11/23
5:00pm
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Mathematics Colloquium
Non-CMC Solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations and Convergent Adaptive Algorithms
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Application of a Particle-Augmented Mixed Lubrication Model to Chemical Mechanical Polishing: Modeling and Experimentation
Elon Terrell,
postdoctoral researcher in mechanical engineering,
Carnegie Mellon University,